The Care not Custody report:

• gives a brief overview of the residential care system in Victoria and the backgrounds of children placed in residential care
• discusses the results of academic studies on the links between out-of-home care and criminal justice outcomes, and the reasons why children in care more frequently end up on our juvenile detention systems
• examines the experiences of our clients who are placed in out-of-home care, and the reasons why their interactions with the criminal justice system tend to escalate upon their placement in care.